APOLLO MISSIONS By: caden Bankhead

The beginning/ slide two People dream of being in space. But after world war two there was a competition between U.S.A (United States of America) and the U.S.S.R (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The U.S.S.R launched the first satellite into space, called the Sputnik 1. U.S.A launched their first satellite into space too and it was called Explorer 1.

Competition/ slide three But by then the U.S.S.R already had the first animal in space and it was a dog. The U.S.S.R beat them again by putting the first man into space and it was Yuri Gagarin. John F Kennedy felt sure that they would beat the U.S.S.R. U.S.A finally put a man in space and it was Alan Sheppard.

What John F Kennedy said/ slide four John F Kennedy said “I will put a man on the moon and bring him home safely. The race to the moon had begun. The U.S.S.R put Valentina Tereshkova in space. She was the first woman in space. So NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) began planning going to the moon.

Getting ready for Apollo One/ slide five In 1965 was the first space rendezvous. In 1968 Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott were almost killed. Now NASA was ready for Apollo One. It was three weeks before going into space and they were practicing. Most spaceships have problems.

The awful memory/ slide six There was a fire in the cockpit that killed Grissom, White, and Chaffee. There was one thing to do. Fix the problem and move on. In the fall of 1968, the awful memory of the Apollo One fire was still painfully sharp at NASA. There had been five unpiloted missions since the tragedy.

APOLLO SEVEN/ slide seven Now NASA was ready for Apollo Seven. Apollo Seven was the first piloted mission of going on an eleven-day Earth orbit. Houston suggests an incredibly daring and dangerous idea: send Apollo Eight around the moon and back. Everything went so well on Apollo Seven that it was time to send Apollo Eight to the moon and back.

APOLLO EIGHT/ slide eight Now NASA was ready for Apollo Eight. Apollo Eight got up into space safely. Now in early morning were about to go into orbit around the moon. Borman, Lovell, and Anders were the first space travelers to actually go SOMEWHERE. They were the first people to ride the Giant Saturn V Moon Rocket, (what they called the spaceship) the first to leave Earth orbit, and the first to see, their home planet shrink to the size of a golf ball hours of December 24, 1968-Christmas Eve-they.

The thought/ slide nine So everything had to work perfectly and if something went wrong there was no hope of rescue. Lovell was struck by the complete lack of color in the surface: this was a black-and-white world. Anders thought ”we came all this way to study the moon, and it’s really the Earth that’s the most interesting part of this flight.”

APOLLO NINE/ slide ten So NASA was ready for Apollo NINE now. Nine was going around the moon. It didn’t matter what the spacecraft looked like. All that mattered was that it worked. But they got back to Earth safely.

APOLLO TEN/ slide eleven NASA was now ready for Apollo TEN. If-and only if-everything went right on Apollo Ten, NASA would give the okay for Apollo Eleven to try to land on the moon. So Apollo Eleven would land on the moon.

APOLLO ELEVEN and the famous saying/slide twelve NASA was now ready for Apollo ELEVEN. Then Armstrong sent a message to a waiting world, “Houston tranquility base here.” “The Eagle (what they called the spaceship) has landed”. Neil Armstrong carefully climbed down the ladder. And then, Neil Armstrong raised his left foot and placed it on the ancient dust of the moon. He tested his weight and he spoke for the ages. “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

APOLLO TWELVE/ slide thirteen Now NASA was ready for Apollo TWELVE. NASA told them “you can land wherever you want.” So Apollo Twelve was landing on the moon and collecting moon rocks and looking around the moon. Bean said to himself “this is the moon. That is the Earth. I’m really here!”

APOLLO THIRTEEN/ slide fourteen Now NASA was now ready for Apollo THIRTEEN. Charlie Duke (the backup guy) had caught German measles. In mission control they heard Jim Lovell say “Houston we’ve had a problem.” The oxygen was weakening. So they have to save them fast. Amazingly, they had managed to deal with every problem. So they made it back to Earth and there was a lot of work to be done at NASA.

APOLLO FOURTEEN/ slide fifteen So NASA was now ready for Apollo FOURTEEN. Alan B Sheppard Jr, Stuart A Roosa, and Edgar D Mitchell are going to Explore the moon’s Fra Mauro highlands. If another failure happens that might be the end of the Apollo program. Sheppard finally said when he step foot on the moon “it’s been a long way, but we’re here.” The two astronauts had taken along a new device that was supposed to help them, two wheeled cart loaded with rock-collecting tools, cameras, maps, and the rock samples they’d already picked up. Alan Sheppard had become the first lunar golfer.

APOLLO FIFTEEN/ slide sixteen Now NASA was ready for Apollo FIFTEEN. David R Scott, Alfred M Worden, and James B Irwin were going to be the First extended scientific expedition to the moon. And, for the first time on any mission, they’d brought along their car-the battery –powered lunar rover. They found a chunk of Anorthosite(that’s a piece of rock.) .

APOLLO SIXTEEN/ slide seventeen Now NASA was ready for Apollo SIXTEEN. John W Young, T Kenneth Mattingly, and Charles M Duke Jr were going to be the first mission to the moon’s Central Highlands. After Apollo Sixteen, there would be only one more lunar mission. There was a serious problem: When he tried to point the engine nozzle for the firing, it shook badly. But after all that time circling the moon, waiting anxiously, they heard capcom Jim Irwin say that the experts in mission control thought it wasn’t a serious problem, after all. The mission could continue! After all, the whole point of being an explorer was to discover what was really there, whatever it turned out to be.

APOLLO SEVENTEEN/ slide eighteen Now NASA was ready for Apollo SEVENTEEN. Eugene A Cernan, Ronald E Evans, and Harrison H “jack” Schmitt was going to explore the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley. Before the flight, he and Schmitt had made a promised themselves that Apollo Seventeen, the final lunar voyage, would be the pinnacle of the entire program. He’d told the workers who were testing his spacecraft “This may be our last, but let’s make it our best.” The last words on the moon: “as I take man’s last step from the surface, back home for some time to come-but we believe not too long into the future.

THE ENDLESS FRONTIER/slide nineteen THE ENDLESS FRONTIER. Apollo Seventeen’s Gene Cernan has said it is as if President Kennedy “reached far into the twenty-first century, grabbed a decade of time and slipped it neatly into the 1960’s.” After December 1972. Americans stopped going to the moon. No one else has been there since then. And Apollo has taught us something else, something precious: exploration offers us a new view of ourselves and our universe.

The end of the story/ slide twenty The End of the story. The moon is only the first stop on an endless journey of exploration. Someday, humans will explore the planet Mars, 35 million miles away; Earth will be no more than a bright, bluish star in the night sky. Even then, they will have barely left home. Beyond our solar system lie other stars, other solar systems, other discoveries. Someday, humans will make those voyages. And when they do, they will look back on Apollo as humanity’s first step toward the stars.